EasyAccess Plus - RateManager

The fastest and most efficient rate loading tool in the industry!

EasyAccess Plus - RateManager is a break-through addition to our suite of EasyAccess Plus data-management tools. RateManager enables hotelgroups to initialize, populate and manage all of their rate data from their individual hotels in a single location, and provide onward distribution to theGDS and online channels in a matter of seconds.

Key Features of EasyAccess Plus - RateManager

■ Unique functionality that allows the creation of new secured rates and propagation to specified distribution channels at the push of a button

■ Allows copying of rates from a chain level to a defined subset of hotels in seconds!

■ Supports XML interfaces with both RFP vendors and hotel CRS systems (available July 2004)

■ Operates a network-wide, single point of entry for your complete rate management needs (Additional EasyAccess Plus tools provide this same single point of entry and delivery system for allproperty descriptive information and hotel images)

Mass Transmission Saves Time and Money

RateManager allows customers to mass transfer their rate information simultaneously to multiple GDS from a single interface, rather than separately to each GDS. Clients are now able to create a profile of specific negotiated rate codes at the chain level, which can then be transferredand activated at the property level. By routing the data through a single entry-point, RateManager significantly improves the accuracy of your rateinformation, while eliminating significant costs associated with manual rate entry. RateManager allows users to do in minutes what used to take weeksand months!

Seamless XML Integration (Available July 2004)

As a member of the EasyAccess Plus suite of products, RateManager is delivered through a highly flexible XML-interface allowing you to seamlesslyintegrate RateManager with your other critical applications. Most important, RateManager can communicate directly with your Central ReservationSystems and fully supports RFP and RFI applications and loading processes (NBTA compliant). This enables you to use one powerful and easy appli-cation to manage, update and distribute all of your rates.

Rate Code Amenities

Expanded Tax and Service Charge Options

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Comprehensive Rate Management Functionality

RateManager puts your timely and complete rate information into the market immediately, with significantly enhanced functional capabilities:

■ It stores and maintains single, double, triple and quad rates for any rate level for an unlimited number of seasons

■ Includes rate level amenities (e.g. breakfast included) and important information on blackout dates, block space programs or any additional taxes and service charges associated with each rate

■ Equates standard and upgrade room classifications to GDS room types on a per hotel basis along with providing indicators for last room availability allotments

■ Robust monitoring and reporting tools for evaluating and improving rate management

■ Allows addition, modification, or deletion of rate levels and codes simultaneously across any defined subset of hotels

Reduces Administrative Time, Errors and Costs

RateManager technology removes the inefficiencies that have frustrated the hotel industry’s manual rate loading processes for many years. Theincreased speed of loading and delivery to market reduces administrative time, errors and costs, and increase sales through a longer “on-sale” window. Operators require less training and become more efficient using RateManager, with multi-tasking functionality and enhanced auditing capabilities built into the system.

“We have managed to turn an issue of ‘headache’ proportions into one that generates significant cost andtime-saving benefits for us, as well as a more accurate and timely delivery of information to our clients.”

Heather Blaseby, Vice President of Distribution, Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts